Hart-Miller Island: 05/16/98

Eugene J. Scarpulla (gscarp@erols.com)
Sun, 17 May 1998 15:09:50 -0400


This is the Hart-Miller Island report for Saturday, May 16, 1998.
The observers were Gene Scarpulla and Debbie Terry.

Observation: 0710-1700
             AM: Sunny, 70 degrees F., SE 5K
             PM: Sunny, 90 degrees F., SE 15K

 Common Loon                     3 (1 breeding, 1 transition, 1 winter)
 Double-crested Cormorant        39
 Great Blue Heron                50
 Canada Goose                    12 (10 adult, 2 young)
 American Black Duck             10
 Mallard                         100 (57 male, 22 female, 21 young)
 Osprey                          14
 Northern Harrier                2 (1 female, 1 immature)
 Peregrine Falcon                2 (adult)
 American Coot                   1
 Black-bellied Plover            2
 Semipalmated Plover             154
 Killdeer                        16
 Lesser Yellowlegs               39
 Spotted Sandpiper               32
 Ruddy Turnstone                 1
 Semipalmated Sandpiper          29
 Least Sandpiper                 729
 White-rumped Sandpiper          2
 Dunlin                          94
 peep sp.                        300
 Short-billed Dowitcher          40
 Laughing Gull                   2
 Ring-billed Gull                2
 Herring Gull                    72
*LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL       *1 (2nd summer, arrival)
 Great Black-backed Gull         91
 Caspian Tern                    240
 Chimney Swift                   4
 Ruby-throated Hummingbird       1
 Eastern Phoebe                  1 (arrival)
 Great Crested Flycatcher        2 (arrival)
 Eastern Kingbird                14
 Tree Swallow                    12
 Barn Swallow                    25
 Blue Jay                        1
 crow sp.                        6
 Tufted Titmouse                 1
 Carolina Wren                   1
 House Wren                      3
 Marsh Wren                      16
 Ruby-crowned Kinglet            1
 Wood Thrush                     1 (arrival)
 American Robin                  1
 Gray Catbird                    7
 European Starling               5
 Yellow Warbler                  15
 Magnolia Warbler                1 (breeding male)
 American Redstart               1 (1st spring male)
 Common Yellowthroat             22
 Northern Cardinal               1
 Song Sparrow                    46
 Swamp Sparrow                   5
 White-crowned Sparrow           1
 Red-winged Blackbird            70
 Orchard Oriole                  1 (1st spring male)
 American Goldfinch              6

REPTILES
 Painted Turtle                  1

 Gene Scarpulla
 Towson, Maryland
 gscarp@erols.com